[OSM-talk-be] OSM Belgian chapter as a Belgian asbl/vzw

[Glenn Plas]

On 2013-10-06 09:12, Nicolas Pettiaux wrote:
> 2013/10/5 Pieter Colpaert <pieter.colpaert at okfn.org 
> <mailto:pieter.colpaert at okfn.org>>
>
>     Hi OSM,
>
>     With Open Knowledge Foundation Belgium vzw we are building an
>     umbrella organisation for Open Knowledge in Belgium. Creative
>     Commons Belgium is a working group, the iRail initiative has
>     become a working group (Open Transport), we have people working on
>     open source software for open data (We Open Data) and so on.
>
>     It could save you a lot of time and money setting up a vzw/asbl if
>     you could become a WG at OKFN Belgium. You can get one person of
>     your WG in the board of the legal organisation and help making
>     decisions from the OSM point of view. For the rest, you maintain
>     your own budget, make your own decisions in the working group, and
>     you can keep operating as OSM Belgium. I think the goals of our 2
>     initiatives are too close not to merge efforts :)
>
> Much thanks Pieter. For me, your proposal makes much sense.
>
> I am loking forward to the reactions and comments of the other people 
> who want to move forward (Pierre P, Ben A, Julien F)

I'm a fan of this evolution, I think it's a great idea.   I don't think 
it really matters where the adress is located, most of us aren't as dumb 
to look at language borders.    I never look at the address of a 
VZW/ASBL to make up my mind about it.    I do think we need to make sure 
'we' won't be making too much expenses until the chosen business model 
proves it's working.
I've said it before in the past here :  my company is ready to donate 
resources, we use OSM data every second of the day.   A VZW/ASBL would 
make that donation a tad easier to do (and receive a decent paper trail 
for our friends at the tax office)

So please keep the list informed, especially of the pending needs to get 
this to happen... if something is missing:  share and thou shall receive :P

Good stuff!

Glenn
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